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  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  Pushiness of Parents, and Other Admissions Tales By ALVIN P. SANOFF While ... intensity of the admissions process and constant news reports warning how ... admissions process (and many other aspects of their children's lives) are now

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  compares any influence of fibre-type material and textile construction of underwear on thermoregulatory responses and thermal comfort of humans during ... has more of an influence on the thermoregulatory responses and thermal

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Orientation Wrap-Up Reason #457 why I love Orientation: I don't have to pay for food for a…

  

  goes that you should not have to spend any money on food for at least your first week at MIT. Since Sam and Mitra both have covered many of ... Midway, I'll just try and cover the aspects of Orientation that have not

  • by Bryan
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  horror movies. We can watch the first 5 minutes of any horror movie and ... Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering. In which I make a Voltaire reference and the soup is a metaphor but luckily…

  

  , 4.9479% of them pictures, and 90.365% of them code.         Here is potato soup, made and dictated by Cory and based heavily on this soup ... of flour and one cup of milk and stir it into the soup. Cook five more

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  CLASS), and I am officially done with 8.01 TEAL as of yesterday. My ... . In the interest of full disclosure, I have had a mild crush on him ... his accent, and then I went home and found out that he’s only 31 and

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  grade at MIT. My birthday. And so on. I've cried over some of these numbers and rejoiced over others. At one point or another, each of these ... finish or post any of them :( (Interruption: Ahmed '12 is sitting next to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  school), MIT does have 3 Pulitzer Prize winners on staff, and 3 of our 13 ... away from home and seeing so many people was sort of overwhelming. I was ... and it was the first time she had been on a plane. Lots of adjustment

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Gregor, one of the two MIT undergraduate dorms open for those of us living on ... is where I'll come home to for the next couple of months. MIT during ... wrong, because when my chair slid to a stop (and the thrill of WHEE

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  with my life and my time. I'm currently on a track at MIT to pursue EECS ... in my junior year of high school, hated it, and swore I'd never return ... mindset. But as I've been home in quarantine, I've had a lot of time to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  a flight to the U.K and embark on the second half of my college journey. And over the last 3 weeks most of the conversations I've had ... I brought together a group of about 50 movies that I watch over and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  shiny new return offer to go back and work on Minecraft next summer. Yes ... to post this update since I kind of left off on a somewhat unsure note ... people moved into the house and I've gotten to know a lot of people in it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  an Arnold Palmer and some chips on a plate. Muscle to the front of the ... walked home from Kendall at 9:30AM, enjoying the sunshine and a hot cup of ... to keep an eye on all of the racks. Preheat the oven to 250˚F, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  landing? You may neglect wind, viscous drag, and the altered aerodynamics of ... and snow left over three million homes and businesses throughout the ... , enthusiastic, and, this year, really cold, fellow MIT students. On the top is my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  . I’m from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Furniture Capital of the World and proud birthplace of both the Holland Tulip Time Festival and the Christian ... -so-proud hometown of Kwame Kilpatrick… yeah). I enjoy long walks on the beach, though

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  yes, I only had one, and yes, it was for an intro class since I’m one of ... morning to find rows and rows of laptops accompanied by nametags and setup instructions sitting in front of rows and rows of chairs. We (the interns) were

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  good to have a nonschool-related thing that is your home and source of ... terms of what to do and what not to do, what works best for me and for the majority of my friends, and how to essentially survive my first year at MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  carrying about 6 cans of soda in his coat pockets and instead stumbled home ... edge of the top bunk and feeling mildly superhero-esque in a thrill ... as early as 2 AM (!). And then I woke up and it was 7:13 AM on Tuesday

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  spent about two hours there this evening, then walked home. On the way ... of the windows were black. But this was on the side of the building: What? All 20 of us - 10 upperclassmen and 10 freshmen - froze. A laser

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  . Beethoven wrote only one opera, and it was called "Fidelio." 2. Nearly all of ... of graffiti on a chalkboard as I was walking through building 56. Get ... of e." When I was at home, my friend Ben asked me if everybody at MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005